A Farnsley Middle School student agenda labeled Kentucky 'Venecky,' Illinois 'Vitoiis,' and included a distorted periodic table. Parents pay a $10 fee for the booklets and suspect the pages were AI-generated. The school told teachers to have students tear the bad pages out.
Mary Johnson
The DeKalb County School District agreed to pay $29.5 million to seven charter schools that sued over withheld funding, nearly triple the roughly $10 million they first claimed. A judge had ruled the district breached its contracts, and the deal now requires it to show its funding math every month.
Arthur Chen
Gov. Brian Kemp suspended all seven members of the Dublin City school board as the small Georgia district works through a roughly $20 million financial crisis that began with a missed health insurance payment and has already cost 46 jobs. A committee will recommend temporary replacements.
Mary Johnson
Texas grades every public district and school from A to F each year, based mostly on STAAR results but through three domains that also credit student growth and progress at high-poverty schools. Here is what the ratings measure, how the letter grade is calculated, and how to read one.
Arthur Chen
The goal isn't a lunch that looks good in a photo. It's one that comes home empty. Here's how to build a lunch from a formula instead of a recipe, keep it safe without a fridge, and beat the sandwich rut, plus the honest question of whether packing beats the school meal at all.
Kate Carter
Aurora Public Schools opened Escuela Bilingüe Betty Benavidez this month, its first dual-language magnet, built on the idea that Spanish is an academic strength to grow rather than a gap to close. About 150 young students start in a model that aims for full biliteracy by the upper grades.
Mary Johnson
Granville County took student take-home laptops away for grades 3 through 8, blocked YouTube, and set two tech-free days a week. Its own web monitoring showed why, and a year in, the results are messier and more interesting than a simple win. Other North Carolina districts are following.
Mary Johnson
Samira Hardcastle, a former Metro Nashville Teacher of the Year, resigned after nearly a decade and went public with claims that district practices pushed her out, including being asked to change a student's failing grade. Metro Nashville Public Schools disputes key parts of her account.
Mary Johnson
The average family with K-12 kids plans to spend about $864 on back-to-school shopping this year, and clothes and shoes cost more than the supply list itself. The bill lands all at once, in summer, and surveys show many parents are taking on debt or cutting groceries to cover it.
Kate Carter
Texas released its 2026 A-F accountability ratings for 1,202 districts and 9,105 schools. A ratings climbed, F ratings fell, and 585 schools jumped straight to an A. The ratings also arrive on time, after lawsuits blocked them for years.
Arthur Chen
A seventh-grade student is in custody after a teacher was stabbed during class at Jonesville Middle School in Lee County, Virginia, on Thursday morning. The sheriff said the teacher's injuries are serious but not life-threatening, and credited several students with stopping the attack.
Mary Johnson
Georgia asks for 23 units, including four years each of math and science, more than most states. There is no exit exam anymore, but the HOPE and Zell Miller scholarships set a separate, higher bar. Here is the full breakdown.
Kate Carter
The Quality Education Commission says schools need $13.8 billion just to hold steady and $16.2 billion to hit new targets. Enrollment has dropped nearly 33,000 students since 2017, and even the commission's own chair says more money alone won't fix it.
Mary Johnson
Several large Texas border districts now enroll a student body that is more than 99 percent Hispanic. allk12's read of NCES enrollment data shows the top of the list is not spread across the country. It sits in two places: the Texas-Mexico border and inland Southern California.
Kate Carter
The rules LAUSD approved in spring are now live: no screens for first grade and under, with limits rolling to every grade this year. One science teacher says 75% of his work ran through a screen and he doesn't feel set up for success.
Mary Johnson
The story that summer break exists because children were needed for the harvest is backward: rural schools often ran summer terms and closed for planting. Once you drop the myth, the research on summer learning loss and year-round calendars turns out to be far shakier than the debate assumes.
Arthur Chen
The Georgia district couldn't justify $400,000 electric buses on its own budget, so federal Clean School Bus money bought them. The district says the 75 buses will carry about a third of its bused students.
Mary Johnson
An allk12 analysis of federal school data for 2024-25 counts 1,583 public schools flagged as virtual or online, enrolling 811,411 students between them. The 15 biggest hold about a fifth of that total. Not one of the 1,583 has a test proficiency score in the same data.
Arthur Chen
An allk12 analysis of federal enrollment data finds the 14 largest US school districts that shrank most from 2017-18 to 2024-25. Baldwin Park Unified led at -44.2%, and 13 of the 14 sit in coastal California.
Arthur Chen
Shenandoah County restored Stonewall Jackson High and Ashby-Lee Elementary in 2024, four years after dropping the names. A judge ruled the reversal discriminated against Black students, who number fewer than a dozen at each school.
Mary Johnson
